Improvement in metal cans



G. BROWNE.

Metal-Can.

No.41.99,6l6-. Patented Jan. 29

' MPHERS, FHOTOLITHDGRAPHER, WASHINGTON. D. C-

UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

GEORGE BROWNE, OF MONTREAL, QUEBEC, CANADA, ASSIGNO-R OF ONE- HALF HISRIGHT TO THOMAS THOMSON TURNBULL, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN METAL CANS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 199,616, dated January29, 1878; application filed December 26, 1877.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, GEORGE BRoWNE, of city and district of Montreal,Province of Quebec, Canada, have invented certain new and usefulImprovements on Metal Cans for Packing Purposes; and I do hereby declarethat the following is a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

This invention has reference to improvements in the construction ofthose cans in which dry and stiff pasty vendible or other articles arepacked up, such as paints ground in oil, dry ground spices, &c., for thepurpose of providing a cheaper and more suitable means of securing thehead or cover of the can.

The cans at present in use are secured by three or more clasps, each ofwhich are attached by a rivet to the can, thus requiring a correspondingnumber of small plates of metal and a rivet to be furnished for eachplate, beside the can, together with the extra work of attaching thesame.

By my invention the chine is made deeper than the head or cover; then,by turning small portions of the chine down over the head or cover, itis not only held securely upon the crease, but the expense and labor ofmaking the rivets and clasps are saved. In use they will be found moreconvenient, as in the ordinary cans the clasps, after the head or coveris removed, stand round outside the can, like so many hooks, ready tocatch hold of anything that comes in contact with them, while my claspsare straightened, or nearly so, in the removal of the cover.

In the drawings hereunto annexed similar letters of reference indicatelike parts.

sider a cylindrical form the best. Bis the chine O, the crease, togovern the depth to which the head or cover D is inserted, also to forma joint therewith.

The flange E of the cover is made of less depth than the chine, as shownin the drawings; and by nicking the edges of the plates of metal out ofwhich the body A is formed, as shown in the drawings, threeportions ofit, forming clasps F, are turned down. Although three are shown, yet thenumber of parts F may be as desired.

What I claim is as follows:

The can A, having a straight chine, B, and having a crease, O, to governthe depth 'to Which the head or cover will be inserted in said can;furthermore, having portions F .of the chine nicked and turned down.over the upward flange of the head or cover, in combination with thehead or cover D, as described.

Montreal, 19th day of December, A. D. 1877.

GEORGE BROWN E.

Witnesses I OHAR Es G. O. SIMPSON, JNo. A. RENNIE.

